Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Students Held in 'Terror' Raids Freed Without Charge

'Nine men detained in a security operation intended to thwart what the Prime Minister said was "a very big terrorist plot" were released without charge last night.

The men, Pakistani citizens who were in Britain on student visas, were handed by police into the custody of immigration authorities and now face deportation on national security grounds. Aged between 22 and 38, they had been detained for 13 out of a possible 28 days but were released because there was no evidence connecting them to terrorist activity.'

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